The Council of Europe, founded in 1949, consists of 47 member states and is the leading human rights organisation for Europe. Its focus is on human rights, democracy and the rule of law. All members have signed the European Convention on Human Rights. The European Court of Human Rights oversees the implementation of the treaty.
This page summarises and links to documents published by the Council of Europe.
Judgments from the European Court of Human Rights are publicly accessible on the HUDOC database.
The full text of Sweet and Maxwell's law report series the European Human Rights Reports are available on Westlaw (link below).
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